Jeremiah 51

1 Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I wil raise vp against Babel, and against the inhabitants that lift vp their heart against me, a destroying wind,

١ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: هَا أَنَا أُثِيرُ عَلَى بَابِلَ وَعَلَى الْمُقِيمِينَ فِي دِيَارِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ رِيحاً مُهْلِكَةً.

2 And wil send vnto Babel fanners that shall fanne her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shalbe against her on euery side.

٢ وَأَبْعَثُ إِلَى بَابِلَ مُذَرِّينَ يُذَرُّونَهَا، وَيَجْعَلُونَ أَرْضَهَا قَفْراً، وَيُهَاجِمُونَهَا مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ فِي يَوْمِ بَلِيَّتِهَا.

3 Also to the bender that bendeth his bowe, and to him that lifteth himselfe vp in his brigandine, will I say, Spare not her yong men, but destroy all her hoste.

٣ لِيُوَتِّرِ الرَّامِي قَوْسَهُ وَلْيَتَدَجَّجْ بِسِلاحِهِ. لَا تَعْفُوا عَنْ شُبَّانِهَا، بَلْ أَبِيدُوا كُلَّ جَيْشِهَا إِبَادَةً.

4 Thus the slaine shall fall in the lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.

٤ يَتَسَاقَطُ الْقَتْلَى فِي أَرْضِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ، وَالْجَرْحَى فِي شَوَارِعِهَا،

5 For Israel hath bene no widowe, nor Iudah from his God, from the Lord of hostes, though their lande was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.

٥ لأَنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيَهُوذَا لَمْ يُهْمِلْهُمَا الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ وَإِنْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُهُمَا تَفِيضُ بِالإِثْمِ ضِدَّ قُدُّوسِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

6 Flee out of the middes of Babel, and deliuer euery man his soule: be not destroyed in her iniquitie: for this is the time of the Lordes vengeance he will render vnto her a recompence.

٦ اهْرُبُوا مِنْ وَسَطِ بَابِلَ، وَلْيَنْجُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ بِحَيَاتِهِ. لَا تَبِيدُوا مِنْ جَرَّاءِ إِثْمِهَا، لأَنَّ هَذَا هُوَ وَقْتُ انْتِقَامِ الرَّبِّ، وَمَوْعِدُ مُجَازَاتِهَا.

7 Babel hath bene as a golden cuppe in the Lordes hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations haue drunken of her wine, therefore do the nations rage.

٧ كَانَتْ بَابِلُ كَأْسَ ذَهَبٍ فِي يَدِ اللهِ، فَسَكِرَتِ الأَرْضُ قَاطِبَةً. تَجَرَّعَتِ الأُمَمُ مِنْ خَمْرِهَا، لِذَلِكَ جُنَّتِ الشُّعُوبُ.

8 Babel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howle for her, bring balme for her sore, if she may be healed.

٨ فَجْأَةً سَقَطَتْ بَابِلُ وَتَحَطَّمَتْ، فَوَلْوِلُوا عَلَيْهَا، خُذُوا بَلَسَاناً لِجُرْحِهَا لَعَلَّهَا تَبْرَأُ.

9 We would haue cured Babel, but she could not be healed: forsake her, and let vs go euery one into his owne countrey: for her iudgement is come vp vnto heauen, and is lifted vp to ye cloudes.

٩ قُمْنَا بِمُدَاوَاةِ بَابِلَ، وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يَنْجَعْ فِيهَا عِلاجٌ. اهْجُرُوهَا وَلْيَمْضِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَّا إِلَى أَرْضِهِ، لأَنَّ قَضَاءَهَا قَدْ بَلَغَ عَنَانَ السَّمَاءِ، وَتَصَاعَدَ حَتَّى ارْتَفَعَ إِلَى الْغُيُومِ.

10 The Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse: come and let vs declare in Zion the worke of the Lord our God.

١٠ قَدْ أَظْهَرَ الرَّبُّ بِرَّنَا، فَتَعَالَوْا لِنُذِيعَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ مَا صَنَعَهُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُنَا.

11 Make bright the arrowes: gather the shieldes: the Lord hath raised vp the spirit of the King of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babel to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, and the vengeance of his Temple.

١١ سُنُّوا السِّهَامَ، وَتَقَلَّدُوا الأَتْرَاسَ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ أَثَارَ رُوحَ مُلُوكِ الْمَادِيِّينَ، إِذْ وَطَّدَ الْعَزْمَ عَلَى إِهْلاكِ بَابِلَ، لأَنَّ هَذَا هُوَ انْتِقَامُ الرَّبِّ، وَالثَّأْرُ لِهَيْكَلِهِ.

12 Set vp the standart vpon the walles of Babel, make the watch strong: set vp the watchmen: prepare the skoutes: for the Lord hath both deuised, and done that which he spake against the inhabitantes of Babel.

١٢ انْصِبُوا رَايَةً عَلَى أَسْوَارِ بَابِلَ. شَدِّدُوا الْحِرَاسَةَ. أَقِيمُوا الأَرْصَادَ. أَعِدُّوا الْكَمَائِنَ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ خَطَّطَ وَأَنْجَزَ مَا قَضَى بِهِ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَابِلَ.

13 O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine ende is come, euen the ende of thy couetousnes.

١٣ أَيَّتُهَا السَّاكِنَةُ إِلَى جُوَارِ الْمِيَاهِ الْغَزِيرَةِ، ذَاتُ الْكُنُوزِ الْوَفِيرَةِ، إِنَّ نِهَايَتَكِ قَدْ أَزِفَتْ، وَحَانَ مَوْعِدُ اقْتِلاعِكِ.

14 The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.

١٤ قَدْ أَقْسَمَ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ بِذَاتِهِ قَائِلاً: لَأَمْلأَنَّكِ أُنَاساً كَالْغَوْغَاءِ فَتَعْلُو جَلَبَتُهُمْ عَلَيْكِ.

15 He hath made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.

١٥ هُوَ الَّذِي صَنَعَ الأَرْضَ بِقُدْرَتِهِ، وَأَسَّسَ الدُّنْيَا بِحِكْمَتِهِ، وَمَدَّ السَّمَاوَاتِ بِفِطْنَتِهِ.

16 Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to raine, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.

١٦ مَا إِنْ يَنْطِقُ بِصَوْتِهِ حَتَّى تَتَجَمَّعَ غِمَارُ الْمِيَاهِ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ، وَتَصْعَدَ السُّحُبُ مِنْ أَقَاصِي الأَرْضِ، وَيَجْعَلُ لِلْمَطَرِ بُرُوقاً، وَيُطْلِقُ الرِّيحَ مِنْ خَزَائِنِهِ.

17 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.

١٧ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ خَامِلٌ وَعَدِيمُ الْمَعْرِفَةِ، وَكُلُّ صَائِغٍ خَزِيَ مِنْ تِمْثَالِهِ، لأَنَّ صَنَمَهُ الْمَسْبُوكَ كَاذِبٌ وَلا حَيَاةَ فِيهِ.

18 They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

١٨ جَمِيعُ الأَصْنَامِ بَاطِلَةٌ وَصَنْعَةُ ضَلالٍ، وَفِي زَمَنِ عِقَابِهَا تَبِيدُ.

19 The portion of Iaakob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.

١٩ أَمَّا نَصِيبُ يَعْقُوبَ فَلَيْسَ مِثْلَ هَذِهِ الأَوْثَانِ، بَلْ هُوَ جَابِلُ كُلِّ الأَشْيَاءِ. وَشَعْبُ إِسْرَائِيلَ هُوَ سِبْطُ مِيرَاثِهِ، وَاسْمُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ.

20 Thou art mine hammer, and weapons of warre: for with thee will I breake the nations, and with thee wil I destroy kingdomes,

٢٠ أَنْتَ فَأْسُ مَعْرَكَتِي وَآلَةُ حَرْبِي. بِكَ أُمَزِّقُ الأُمَمَ إِرْباً وَأُحَطِّمُ مَمَالِكَ.

21 And by thee wil I breake horse and horseman, and by thee will I breake the charet and him that rideth therein.

٢١ بِكَ أَجْعَلُ الْفَرَسَ وَفَارِسَهَا أَشْلاءَ، وَأُهَشِّمُ الْمَرْكَبَةَ وَرَاكِبَهَا.

22 By thee also will I breake man and woman, and by thee wil I breake olde and yong, and by thee wil I breake the yong man and the mayde.

٢٢ بِكَ أُحَطِّمُ الرَّجُلَ وَالْمَرْأَةَ، وَالشَّيْخَ وَالْفَتَى، وَالشَّابَ وَالْعَذْرَاءَ.

23 I wil also breake by thee the shepheard and his flocke, and by thee will I breake the husband man and his yoke of oxen, and by thee will I breake the dukes and princes.

٢٣ بِكَ أَسْحَقُ الرَّاعِي وَقَطِيعَهُ، وَالْحَارِثَ وَفَدَّانَهُ، وَالْحُكَّامَ وَالْوُلاةَ.

24 And I will render vnto Babel, and to all the inhabitants of the Caldeans all their euil, that they haue done in Zion, euen in your sight, sayth the Lord.

٢٤ سَأُجَازِي بَابِلَ وَسَائِرَ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَرِّهِمِ الَّذِي ارْتَكَبُوهُ فِي حَقِّ صِهْيَوْنَ، عَلَى مَرْأَى مِنْكُمْ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

25 Beholde, I come vnto thee, O destroying mountaine, sayth the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand vpon thee, and rolle thee downe from the rockes, and wil make thee a burnt mountaine.

٢٥ هَا أَنَا أَنْقَلِبُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا الْجَبَلُ الْمُخَرِّبُ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ. أَنْتَ تُفْسِدُ كُلَّ الأَرْضِ، لِذَلِكَ أَمُدُّ يَدِي عَلَيْكَ وَأُدَحْرِجُكَ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّخُورِ، وَأَجْعَلُكَ جَبَلاً مُحْتَرِقاً.

26 They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for euer, sayth the Lord.

٢٦ فَلا يُقْطَعُ مِنْكَ حَجَرٌ لِزَاوِيَةٍ، وَلا حَجَرٌ يُوْضَعُ كَأَسَاسٍ، بَلْ تَكُونُ خَرَاباً أَبَدِيًّا، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

27 Set vp a standard in the lande: blowe the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call vp the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz against her: appoynt the prince against her: cause horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.

٢٧ انْصِبُوا رَايَةً فِي الأَرْضِ. انْفُخُوا فِي الْبُوقِ بَيْنَ الأُمَمِ. أَثِيرُوا عَلَيْهَا الأُمَمَ لِقِتَالِهَا، وَأَعِدُّوا عَلَيْهَا مَمَالِكَ أَرَارَاطَ وَمِنِّي وَأَشْكَنَازَ. أَقِيمُوا عَلَيْهَا قَائِداً. اجْعَلُوا الْخَيْلَ تَزْحَفُ عَلَيْهَا كَجَحَافِلِ الْجَرَادِ الشَّرِسَةِ.

28 Prepare against her the nations with the Kings of the Medes, the dukes thereof, and the princes thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

٢٨ أَثِيرُوا عَلَيْهَا الأُمَمَ وَمُلُوكَ المَادِيِّينَ وَكُلَّ حُكَّامِهِمْ وَوُلاتِهِمْ وَسَائِرَ الدِّيَارِ الَّتِي يَحْكُمُونَهَا.

29 And the land shall tremble and sorow: for the deuise of the Lord shalbe performed against Babel, to make the lande of Babel waste without an inhabitant.

٢٩ الأَرْضُ تَرْجُفُ وَتَقْشَعِرُّ، لأَنَّ قَضَاءَ الرَّبِّ عَلَى بَابِلَ يَتِمُّ، لِيَجْعَلَ أَرْضَ بَابِلَ خَرَاباً وَقَفْراً.

30 The strong men of Babel haue ceased to fight: they haue remayned in their holdes: their strength hath fayled, and they were like women: they haue burnt her dwelling places, and her barres are broken.

٣٠ قَدْ أَحْجَمَ مُحَارِبُو بَابِلَ الْجَبَابِرَةُ عَنِ الْقِتَالِ، وَاعْتَصَمُوا فِي مَعَاقِلِهِمْ. خَارَتْ شَجَاعَتُهُمْ، وَصَارُوا كَالنِّسَاءِ. احْتَرَقَتْ مَسَاكِنُ بَابِلَ وَتَحَطَّمَتْ مَزَالِيجُهَا.

31 A post shall runne to meete the post, and a messenger to meete the messenger, to shew the King of Babel, that his citie is taken on a side thereof,

٣١ يَرْكُضُ عَدَّاءٌ لِمُلاقَاةِ عَدَّاءٍ آخَرَ. وَيُسْرِعُ مُخْبِرٌ لِلِقَاءِ مُخْبِرٍ لِيُبَلِّغَ مَلِكَ بَابِلَ أَنَّ مَدِينَتَهُ قَدْ تَمَّ الاسْتِيلاءُ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ.

32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes burnt with fire, and the me of war troubled.

٣٢ قَدْ سَقَطَتِ الْمَعَابِرُ وَأُحْرِقَتْ أَجَمَاتُ الْقَصَبِ بِالنَّارِ وَاعْتَرَى الذُّعْرُ الْمُحَارِبِينَ،

33 For thus sayth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, the daughter of Babel is like a threshing floore: the time of her threshing is come: yet a litle while, and the time of her haruest shall come.

٣٣ لأَنَّ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: إِنَّ أَهْلَ بَابِلَ كَالْبَيْدَرِ، وَقَدْ حَانَ أَوَانُ دَرْسِ حِنْطَتِهِ. وَبَعْدَ قَلِيلٍ يَأْزَفُ مَوْعِدُ حَصَادِهِمْ.

34 Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel hath deuoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an emptie vessel: he swallowed mee vp like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out.

٣٤ يَقُولُ الْمَسْبِيُّونَ: «قَدِ افْتَرَسَنَا نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرُ مَلِكُ بَابِلَ وَسَحَقَنَا وَجَعَلَنَا إِنَاءً فَارِغاً. ابْتَلَعَنَا كَتِنِّينٍ، وَمَلأَ جَوْفَهُ مِنْ أَطَايِبِنَا، ثُمَّ لَفَظَنَا مِنْ فَمِهِ.

35 The spoyle of me, and that which was left of me, is brought vnto Babel, shall the inhabitant of Zion say: and my blood vnto the inhabitantes of Caldea, shall Ierusalem say.

٣٥ يَقُولُ أَهْلُ أُورُشَلِيمَ: لِيَحُلَّ بِبَابِلَ مَا أَصَابَنَا وَأَصَابَ لُحُومَنَا مِنْ ظُلْمٍ. وَتَقُولُ أُورُشَلِيمُ: دَمِي عَلَى أَهْلِ أَرْضِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ.

36 Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will maintayne thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp the sea, and drie vp her springes.

٣٦ لِذَلِكَ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: هَا أَنَا أُدَافِعُ عَنْ دَعْوَاكِ وَأَنْتَقِمُ لَكِ، فَأُجَفِّفُ بَحْرَ بَابِلَ وَيَنَابِيعَهَا،

37 And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

٣٧ فَتَصِيرُ بَابِلُ رُكَاماً وَمَأْوَى لِبَنَاتِ آوَى، وَمَثَارَ دَهْشَةٍ وَصَفِيرٍ وَأَرْضاً مُوْحِشَةً.

38 They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

٣٨ إِنَّهُمْ يَزْأَرُونَ كَالأُسُودِ وَيُزَمْجِرُونَ كَالأَشْبَالِ.

39 In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and not wake, sayth the Lord.

٣٩ عِنْدَ شَبَعِهِمْ أُعِدُّ لَهُمْ مَأْدُبَةً وَأُسْكِرُهُمْ حَتَّى تَأْخُذَهُمُ النَّشْوَةُ فَيَنَامُونَ نَوْماً أَبَدِيًّا لَا يَقْظَةَ مِنْهُ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

40 I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.

٤٠ وَأُحْضِرُهُمْ كَالْحُمْلانِ لِلذَّبْحِ وَكَالْكِبَاشِ وَالتُّيُوسِ.

41 How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!

٤١ كَيْفَ اسْتُوْلِيَ عَلَى بَابِلَ! كَيْفَ سَقَطَتْ فَخْرُ كُلِّ الأَرْضِ! كَيْفَ صَارَتْ بَابِلُ مَثَارَ دَهْشَةٍ بَيْنَ الأُمَمِ!

42 The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.

٤٢ قَدْ طَغَى الْبَحْرُ عَلَى بَابِلَ فَغَمَرَهَا بِأَمْوَاجِهِ الْهَائِجَةِ،

43 Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the sonne of man passe thereby.

٤٣ وَأَصْبَحَتْ مُدُنُهَا مُوْحِشَةً وَأَرْضَ قَفْرٍ وَصَحْرَاءَ، أَرْضاً لَا يَأْوِي إِلَيْهَا أَحَدٌ وَلا يَجْتَازُ بِها إِنْسَانٌ.

44 I wil also visite Bel in Babel, and I wil bring out of his mouth, that which he hath swallowed vp, and the nations shall runne no more vnto him, and the wall of Babel shall fall.

٤٤ وَأُعَاقِبُ الصَّنَمَ بِيلَ فِي بَابِلَ، وَأَسْتَخْرِجُ مِنْ فَمِهِ مَا ابْتَلَعَهُ، فَتَكُفُّ الأُمَمُ عَنِ التَّوَافُدِ إِلَيْهِ، وَيَنْهَدِمُ أَيْضاً سُورُ بَابِلَ.

45 My people, go out of the middes of her, and deliuer yee euery man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord,

٤٥ اخْرُجُوا مِنْ وَسَطِهَا يَا شَعْبِي وَلْيَنْجُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ بِحَيَاتِهِ هَرَباً مِنِ احْتِدَامِ غَضَبِ الرَّبِّ.

46 Least your heart euen faynt, and ye feare the rumour, that shalbe heard in the land: the rumour shall come this yeere, and after that in the other yeere shall come a rumour, and crueltie in the land, and ruler against ruler.

٤٦ لَا يَخُرْ قَلْبُكُمْ وَلا تَفْزَعُوا مِمَّا يَشِيعُ فِي الدِّيَارِ مِنْ أَنْبَاءَ، إِذْ تَرُوجُ شَائِعَةٌ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ وَأُخْرَى فِي السَّنَةِ التَّالِيَةِ، وَيَسُودُ الْعُنْفُ الأَرْضَ، وَيَقُومُ مُتَسَلِّطٌ عَلَى مُتَسَلِّطٍ.

47 Therefore beholde, the dayes come, that I will visite the images of Babel, and the whole land shalbe confounded, and all her slayne shall fall in the middes of her.

٤٧ لِذَلِكَ هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ أُعَاقِبُ فِيهَا أَصْنَامَ بَابِلَ وَيَلْحَقُ الْعَارُ بِأَرْضِهَا كُلِّهَا، وَيَتَسَاقَطُ قَتْلاهَا فِي وَسَطِهَا.

48 Then the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, shall reioyce for Babel: for the destroyers shall come vnto her from the North, saith the Lord.

٤٨ عِنْدَئِذٍ تَتَغَنَّى بِسُقُوطِ بَابِلَ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالأَرْضُ وَكُلُّ مَا فِيهَا، لأَنَّ الْمُدَمِّرِينَ يَتَقَاطَرُونَ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الشِّمَالِ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

49 As Babel caused the slaine of Israel to fal, so by Babel the slaine of all the earth did fall.

٤٩ كَمَا صَرَعَتْ بَابِلُ قَتْلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، هَكَذَا يُصْرَعُ قَتْلَى بَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ الأَرْض.

50 Ye that haue escaped the sworde, goe away, stand not still: remember the Lord a farre of, and let Ierusalem come into your minde.

٥٠ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاجُونَ مِنَ السَّيْفِ، اهْرُبُوا وَلا تَقِفُوا، اذْكُرُوا الرَّبَّ فِي مَكَانِكُمُ الْبَعِيدِ، وَلا تَبْرَحْ أُورُشَلِيمُ مِنْ خَوَاطِرِكُمْ.

51 Wee are confounded because wee haue heard reproch: shame hath couered our faces, for straungers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lordes House.

٥١ قَدْ لَحِقَنَا الْخِزْيُ لأَنَّنَا اسْتَمَعْنَا لِلإِهَانَةِ، فَكَسَا الْخَجَلُ وُجُوهَنَا، إِذِ انْتَهَكَ الْغُرَبَاءُ مَقَادِسَ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ.

52 Wherefore behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that I will visite her grauen images, and through all her land the wounded shall grone.

٥٢ لِذَلِكَ هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، أُنَفِّذُ فِيهَا قَضَائِي عَلَى أَصْنَامِ بَابِلَ، وَيَئِنُّ جَرْحَاهَا فِي كُلِّ دِيَارِهَا.

53 Though Babel should mount vp to heauen, and though shee should defend her strength on hye, yet from mee shall her destroyers come, sayth the Lord.

٥٣ وَحَتَّى لَوِ ارْتَفَعَتْ بَابِلُ فَبَلَغَتِ السَّمَاءَ، وَحَتَّى لَوْ حَصَّنَتْ مَعَاقِلَهَا الشَّامِخَةَ، فَإِنَّ الْمُدَمِّرِينَ يَنْقَضُّونَ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ عِنْدِي، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

54 A sound of a cry commeth from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans,

٥٤ هَا صَوْتُ صُرَاخٍ يَتَرَدَّدُ فِي بَابِلَ، صَوْتُ جَلَبَةِ دَمَارٍ عَظِيمٍ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ،

55 Because the Lord hath layde Babel waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, and her waues shall roare like great waters, and a sounde was made by their noyse:

٥٥ لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ خَرَّبَ بَابِلَ، وَأَخْرَسَ جَلَبَتَهَا الْعَظِيمَةَ، إِذْ طَغَتْ عَلَيْهَا جَحَافِلُ أَعْدَائِهَا كَمِيَاهٍ عَجَّاجَةٍ، وَعَلا ضَجِيجُ أَصْوَاتِهِمْ.

56 Because the destroyer is come vpon her, euen vpon Babel, and her strong men are taken, their bowes are broken: for the Lord God that recompenceth, shall surely recompence.

٥٦ لأَنَّ الْمُدَمِّرَ قَدِ انْقَضَّ عَلَى بَابِلَ وَأَسَرَ مُحَارِبِيهَا، وَتَكَسَّرَتْ كُلُّ قِسِيِّهَا، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهُ مُجَازَاةٍ، وَهُوَ حَتْماً يُحَاسِبُهَا.

57 And I will make drunke her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.

٥٧ إِنِّي أُسْكِرُ رُؤَسَاءَهَا وَحُكَمَاءَهَا وَمُحَارِبِيهَا، فَيَنَامُونَ نَوْماً أَبَدِيًّا لَا يَقْظَةَ مِنْهُ، يَقُولُ الْمَلِكُ، الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ اسْمُهُ.

58 Thus saith the Lord of hostes, The thicke wall of Babel shalbe broken, and her hie gates shall be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in ye fire, for they shalbe weary.

٥٨ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ: إِنَّ سُورَ بَابِلَ الْعَرِيضَ يُقَوَّضُ وَيُسَوَّى بِالأَرْضِ، وَبَوَّابَاتِهَا الْعَالِيَةَ تَحْتَرِقُ بِالنَّارِ، وَيَذْهَبُ تَعَبُ الشُّعُوبِ بَاطِلاً، وَيَكُونُ مَصِيرُ جَهْدِ الأُمَمِ لِلنَّارِ».

59 The worde which Ieremiah the Prophet commanded Sheraiah the sonne of Neriiah, the sonne of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the King of Iudah into Babel, in the fourth yeere of his reigne: and this Sheraiah was a peaceable prince.

٥٩ هَذِهِ هِيَ النُّبُوءَةُ الَّتِي أَوْدَعَهَا إِرْمِيَا النَّبِيُّ سَرَايَا بْنَ نِيرِيَّا بْنِ مَحْسِيَّا، عِنْدَمَا رَافَقَ صِدْقِيَّا مَلِكَ يَهُوذَا إِلَى بَابِلَ فِي السَّنَةِ الرَّابِعَةِ لِحُكْمِهِ. وَكَانَ سَرَايَا آنَئِذٍ رَئِيسَ الْمُعَسْكَرِ.

60 So Ieremiah wrote in a booke all the euill that should come vpon Babel: euen al these things, that are written against Babel.

٦٠ وَكَانَ إِرْمِيَا قَدْ دَوَّنَ فِي كِتَابٍ وَاحِدٍ جَمِيعَ الْكَوَارِثِ الَّتِي سَتُبْتَلَى بِها بَابِلُ، أَيْ جَمِيعَ النُّبُوءَاتِ الْمُدَوَّنَةِ عَنْ بَابِلَ.

61 And Ieremiah sayd to Sheraiah, Whe thou commest vnto Babel, and shalt see, and shalt reade all these wordes,

٦١ وَقَالَ إِرْمِيَا لِسَرَايَا: «حَالَمَا تَصِلُ إِلَى بَابِلَ، اعْمَلْ عَلَى تِلاوَةِ جَمِيعِ هَذِهِ النُّبُوءَاتِ.

62 Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate for euer.

٦٢ وَقُلْ: أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ قَدْ قَضَيْتَ عَلَى هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ بِالانْقِرَاضِ، فَلا يَسْكُنُ فِيهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَالْبَهَائِمِ، بَلْ يُصْبِحُ خَرَاباً أَبَدِيًّا.

63 And when thou hast made an ende of reading this booke, thou shalt binde a stone to it, and cast it in the middes of Euphrates,

٦٣ وَمَتَى فَرَغْتَ مِنْ تِلاوَةِ هَذَا الْكِتَابِ، ارْبُطْ بِهِ حَجَراً وَاطْرَحْهُ فِي وَسَطِ الْفُرَاتِ.

64 And shalt say, Thus shall Babel be drowned, and shall not rise from the euil, that I will bring vpon her: and they shall be weary. Thus farre are the wordes of Ieremiah.

٦٤ وَقُلْ: كَذَلِكَ تَغْرَقُ بَابِلُ وَلا تَطْفُو بَعْدُ لِمَا أُوْقِعُهُ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ عِقَابٍ فَيَعْيَا كُلُّ أَهْلِهَا». إِلَى هُنَا تَنْتَهِي نُبُوءَاتُ إِرْمِيَا.